I was a Y2K programmer. I was working for a consultant firm at AT&T/Lucent during the build-up time. Chips were never replaced. Programs held on hard drives were replaced. We didn't go around using EPROM machines to reprogram all the chips to handle Y2K. Hardwarewise, Y2K was a joke. I don't know of a single example of a piece of hardware dying on Y2K. The power plants didn't go offline because of the rollover. The POS machines worked. The whole technology infrastructure was unaffected.
There were no "nightmares" kept out of the newspapers by the underground conspiracists. Nothing ugly is going to pop up suddenly. It's over. It was simply a time for people like you and I to make a lot of money.
Indeed! It's too bad we won't be around for Y3K. ;-)
Is this the Amateur Comedian Hour?
Who was talking about "chips"?
Not ME.
PS: Your failure to observe certain facts, based on your restricted perspective, is not a call for me to bow down at your feet and deny that which I know.
So, now we each know that we are at opposite ends of THIS topic -- we are NOT going to persuade the other -- and it is OFF-topic for this thread -- so let's drop it, OK?
I can go on for pages and pages and pages -- and so can you.
Let's not.